Growth Metrics

Essential Utilities (WTRG) Tax Rate (2016 - 2025)

Essential Utilities (WTRG) has disclosed Tax Rate for 10 consecutive years, with 0.9% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Tax Rate changed N/A to 0.9% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 7.68%, a N/A change, with the full-year FY2025 number at 2.65%, down 1835.0% from a year prior.
  • Tax Rate was 0.9% for Q4 2025 at Essential Utilities, up from 7.83% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Tax Rate ranged from a high of 120.72% in Q4 2023 to a low of 19.8% in Q1 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 7.22% and a median of 2.41% in 2024 define the central range for Tax Rate.
  • Peak YoY movement for Tax Rate: tumbled -1199bps in 2022, then surged 10828bps in 2023.
  • Essential Utilities' Tax Rate stood at 11.82% in 2021, then surged by 205bps to 12.44% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 871bps to 120.72% in 2023, then tumbled by -85bps to 18.58% in 2024, then plummeted by -95bps to 0.9% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for WTRG's Tax Rate are 0.9% (Q4 2025), 7.83% (Q1 2025), and 18.58% (Q3 2024).